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"With two sticks, you'd need a base."

This is exactly correct. I'm a bit of a flight game nut (I hesitate to use the word "sim" because while I do enjoy highly realistic games like Falcon 4, I still play a great deal of Ace Combat). While I've owned a number of sticks over the years, my current favourite is the Hori Flightstick II that shipped with the special editions of AC5. Before this I used a Microsoft Force Feedback 2, which had an extremely heavy base. You would use your weak hand for the throttle control at the base of the stick and your dominant hand for the stick itself. The weight of the base was sufficient.
 
The Hori sticks are quite light, and therefore come with suction cups on the bottom. This actually works quite well, provided whatever surface to which you intend to affix them is smooth. My coffee table and desk (both fairly standard Ikea fare) are "textured" slightly, and the sticks will not stay in place. The worst is the left hand throttle control. I prefer to adjust my throttle to have a lot of friction (there's an adjustment on the bottom of the unit), but this means that throttling up often results in me just shoving the whole stick forward instead.
 
My current solution is that I have both of them mounted on a pane of glass that used to be a door for an entertainment unit that I no longer use. I've stuck some rubber feet on it to protect the surface of the table or desk, and to keep it sliding around. This works perfectly while playing, but just as the parent post suggested, this hack of a base for my sticks is big, and not very mobile. They sit, always stuck to the glass, rather conspicuously beside my entertainment unit. It's an okay solution, but quite annoying.
 
I seriously doubt that anyone other than flight game addicts like myself would be willing to put up with it.

The stylus that comes with the DS just really is terrible. If you don't want to have to upgrade to a new DS just to fix this, what I think really every original-design DS owner should take a look at is the Hori extendable stylus. (I don't know if that site is a good or safe one to order from-- it just showed up on google. I got my extendable stylus from lik-sang, and a friend of mine said that EBGames was carrying them in stores, but I can't find it on either of those websites right now.) It fits perfeclty in the little stylus slot of the DS, but when you pull it out it extends to about twice the size, long enough for a real human being with real human hands to actually use...

Alchemy? It seems like the process takes a simple chemical combustion, not atom-altering alchemy.

AAHHH but they didn't tell you about the Transmutation Circle in the exhaust pipe! ;-)

But what will happens then, if the games started supporting Keyboard+Mouse input, in addition to gamepads?

Then you get this:
http://www.toysnjoys.com/access_cube/ascii_keyboar d.jpg

As a matter of fact I do have a Gamecube, and Pikmin. As I have stated before I work in a capacity that I get all new consoles, and most games, for free. If Pikmin is what passes for innovative on the Gamecube, and you are right it is, thank you for proving my point. Making presumptions about people just makes you look like a jackass.

As a matter of fact the game I am playing now in console land is Amped 2 for XBOX, the only snowboarding simulation out there. Mostly I have been playing Diablo II, so that is literally what I will be returning too.

Hey attack me if you want, but unless you can refute any of my points (you didnt), you should try opening your mind and closing the argumentum ad hominem.

And allow me to point out the Pikmin plushes if I may...
Mod me down if you must, but read and my post and you might learn something. Still looks like its all about the plushes to me.

why aren't they trying to build a new special-purpose media device with the decryption method in hardware and the case sealed?

You mean like the Micro Music Clip Players? :-)

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